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First U.S. edition (stated First Edition with code F-K below). Fraying and wear to the spine ends and corner tips, mild fading to the spine, modest soiling to the covers, faint rubber-stamp and signature to the endpaper, else about very good; lacking the dust jacket. The author's scarce first book and the first book in the Nigel Strangeways series. "Nicholas Blake is the pseudonym for C. Day Lewis CBE, who was Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972, aged sixty-eight. C. Day Lewis had an illustrious career both as an academic and as a literary figure, producing many collections of poetry, critical works, translations and novels under his own name. C. Day Lewis married his second wife, the actress Jill Balcon, in 1951. He had four children, one of whom is the actor Daniel Day Lewis."--Fantastic Fiction.